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The strain of a lifetime of work now began to take its toll. For the second time in his life Bach now became very seriously ill.

He died during the evening of 27 November 1936.

See death certificate.

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Bach published 'The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies'.

The 38 remedies were placed under the following seven headings

1  For Fear
2  For Uncertainty
3  For Insufficient Interest in Present Circumstances
4  For Loneliness
5  For Those Over-sensitive to Influences and Ideas
6  For Despondency or Despair
7  For Over-Care for Welfare of Others

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In October 1936 his last public talk was given to a Masonic gathering. The theme of the talk was ‘Disease is Curable’.

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September 24th, his 50th birthday, he gives the first public lecture on ‘Healing by Herbs’ in the Masonic Hall, Wallingford.

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'The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach Physician'.
Nora Week's biography of Dr Bach.

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'To Thine Own Self be True' by Mary Tabor

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In January he received a letter from The General Medical Council threatening to have him struck off the Medical Register if he continues to use ‘unqualified assistants’. He was by now working with a small team of assistants.

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In February/March he began a new cycle of remedies which were prepared by the boiling method.

They are Cherry Plum, Aspen, Elm, Chestnut Bud, Larch, Beech, Hornbeam, Walnut, Star of Bethlehem, Holly, Crab Apple, Willow, Pine, Red Chestnut, Mustard, Wild Rose, Honeysuckle and Sweet Chestnut. White Chestnut, which he found in May, is the only one of this group of the Second Nineteen to be made by the sun method.

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In April he moved to the village of Sotwell near Wallingford in what was then Berkshire, to a house called Mount Vernon. In June he found Wild Oat near Sotwell.

Wrote 'The Twelve Healers and Seven Helpers', published in July.
'The Story of the Travellers' - the natures of 16 remedies explained in a short children's story format.

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The four helper remedies found: Oak in Cromer, Norfolk; Gorse, in the Thames Valley and Rock Water and Heather found near Crickhowell in Wales [above]

Friends in Switzerland sent him Vine and friends from Italy sent Olive and Vine, prepared by the sun method from his instructions.

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Twelve Great Remedies published in a magazine for Homeopaths.

His book The Twelve Healers and Four Helpers published in the autumn.

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During the latter part of 1932 and into 1933 Bach was in correspondence with the General Medical Council [the body with the legal responsibility for regulating the medical profession in the UK] who threatened to strike him off the Medical Register for advertising his remedies in local newspapers.

This example appeared in the Northern Daily Telegraph of 24 Nov 32.

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He returned to Westerham, where he had found Gentian the previous year, this time to find Rock Rose, the last in the series which he called 'The Twelve Healers', later to become 'The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies'.

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'Free Thyself' published.

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In June at Lewes in Sussex, Bach found Water Violet and in July near Westerham in Kent he found Gentian.

He now had 11 of his 12 Healers series but as it was late in the year he would have to wait until the following spring to find the last one.

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February: 'Ye Suffer From Yourselves', an address given in Southport.

Published 'Heal Thyself - An Explanation of the Real Cause and Cure of Disease'.

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Early in the year Bach left London and moved to a small Welsh village near Bettws-y-coed to continue his work on his group theory and search for new remedies.

Visits Abersoch, a small seaside village a few miles from Pwllheli in North Wales where he stayed until the end of July. It was here that he perfected the sun method of extracting the healing properties of plants and where he wrote 'Heal Thyself'.

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January: 'An Effective Method of Preparing Vaccines for Oral Administration' published in Medical World.

February: 'Some New Remedies and New Uses' published in Homoeopathic World.

'Some Fundamental Considerations of Disease and Cure' published in Homoeopathic World.

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In August while in Cromer he discovered Agrimony, Centaury, Chicory, Cerato and Vervain. In September discovered Scleranthus.

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In 1930 Dr Bach began what was to become a four-year association with the small town of Cromer, in the east-coast county of Norfolk.
We have a photographic archive of the town, made in 2002, although the views depicted will hardly have changed since Bach's time there.

Modem connection	Broadband connection

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Bach was dissatisfied with using the products of disease to cure disease and gave up nosode therapy.

‘I wish it were possible that we could present to you seven herbs instead of seven groups of bacteria.’ He finally found the solution to his dilemma: ‘yet there is one thing lacking in the effort to avoid using bacterial nosodes, this vital point is polarity. The remedies of the meadow and nature, when potentized are of a positive polarity; whereas those which have been associated with disease are of the reverse type… Science is tending to show that life is harmony - a state of being in tune - and that disease is discord or a condition when a part of the whole is not vibrating in unison’.

From the end of 1929 he gave up all methods of treatment except ‘the pure and simple herbs of the field’.

He eventually found that there were 12 groups or predominant states of mind. These he related to the types of karmic lessons people need to work through in life.

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The Rediscovery of Psora, published in The British Homoeopathic Journal.

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In March The Medical World published 'An Effective Method of
Combating Intestinal Toxaemia'.

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‘Bach had attended the dinner somewhat unwillingly and was not enjoying himself greatly. To pass the time he was idly watching the people around him when suddenly he realised that the whole of humanity consisted of a number of definite groups of types; that every individual in that large hall belonged to one or other of these groups. . .

‘He found this a most engrossing occupation, and by the time the dinner was over he had worked out a number of groups and was busy in his mind comparing these with the seven bacterial groups.

‘He wondered how this extended group-theory would apply to disease and its cure - whether the diseases from which these groups suffered would also bear a resemblance to each other.

‘Then came the inspiration that the individuals of each group would not suffer from the same kinds of disease, but that all of those in any group would react in the same or nearly the same manner to any type of illness.’
From 'The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach Physician' by Nora Weeks

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In September, following an intuitive impulse, he went to Wales where he found the first three of the flower remedies at Crickhowell: Impatiens, Mimulus, and Clematis.

In November, in an address to The British Homoeopathic Society he referred to the fact that certain plants resembled the bacterial nosodes in their action.

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At the International Homoeopathic Congress held in London, Dr Bach read a paper entitled 'The Problem of Chronic Disease' with Drs CE Wheeler and TM Dishington.

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Published 'Chronic Disease: A Working Hypothesis', written with Dr CE Wheeler who had assisted him in his research at the London Homoeopathic Hospital.

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In March The Medical World published 'An Effective Method of
Combating Intestinal Toxaemia'.

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Dr Bach advised eating more uncooked food, fruits, nuts, cereals and vegetables to reduce the amount of toxins produced in the intestines.

At the British Homoeopathic Congress in London he read a paper entitled 'Intestinal Toxaemia in its Relation to Cancer', discussing the effects of diet combined with vaccine treatment.

He observed that ‘the benefit obtained is due to general improvement and not local treatment’.

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Bach gave up his post at the London Homoeopathic Hospital and moved to a large laboratory in Park Crescent [above], off Portland Place. He kept his Harley Street consulting room where his practice continued to prosper.

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'The Relation of Vaccine Therapy to Homoeopathy'
The British Homoeopathic Journal, April 1920.
Bach also read this as a paper to the London Homoeopathic Society in April 1920

Other publications in 1920:

'The Nature of Serum Antitrypsin and its Relation to Autolysis and the Formation of Toxins'
FH Teale and E Bach, The Proceedings of The Royal Society of Medicine, 1920.

'The Relation of Autotryptic Titre of Blood to Bacteria Infection and Anaphylaxis '
FH Teale and E Bach, The Proceedings of The Royal Society of Medicine, 1920.

'The fate of ‘washed spores’ on inoculation into animals, with special reference to the Nature of Bacterial Toxaemia' by
FH Teal and E Bach, Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, 1920.

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In March 1919 Bach was appointed Pathologist and Bacteriologist at the London Homoeopathic Hospital. [picture shows the Pathology Laboratory a few years earlier]

Here he works on researching the organisms present in the intestines, classifying them into seven groups, by means of their fermentation action on sugar.

The seven groups of bacilli he named were:
1 Proteus
2 Dysentery
3 Morgan
4 Faecalis Alkaligenes
5 Coil Mutabile
6 Gaertner
7 No.7

Vaccines prepared from these groups were found to purify the intestinal tract.

Each patient was tested for the bacterial group predominant in the intestines and either an autogenous or polyvalent nosode given. In the autogenous method a remedy was made of the organism isolated from a particular patient and given either by injection or by mouth. To cover a great number of cases a polyvalent nosode, made from collecting organisms from hundreds of patients then potentizing the whole, was administered.

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In July Bach collapsed with severe haemorrhage. Received surgery for cancer and was given three months to live.

However he recovered and continued with his research work.

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Bach was living at 42 Canonbury Square

On 2 May he married Kitty Emmeline Jane Light, then living at 89 Calabria Rd, Islington, about half a mile distant. See marriage certificate.

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In the spring of 1918 a flu epidemic broke out in the trenches among the soldiers fighting the war. By May it had spread back to the home countries of the soldiers, England, Germany, the USA and India. In England it quickly spread to become a very serious outbreak, claiming 228,000 lives (and in India, according to some estimates, many millions).

Desperate measures to prevent the spread: streets were sprayed and people wore masks. However both the precautions and the treatments were ineffectual.

Dr Bach would have been working at university College Hospital during this terrible epidemic.

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In 1915 Dr Bach was in charge of war beds at University College Hospital. [image is contemporaneous but not of UCH]

At the same time, as well as researching into vaccine therapy at the Bacteriological Department he was also a demonstrator and clinical assistant to the Hospital Medical School.

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Awarded the Diploma in Public Health Camb. (Cambridge).

At the outbreak of the First World War, Bach applied to serve abroad. To his sorrow he was on several occasions refused permission on health grounds.

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